Lit Hub Daily: October 31, 2017

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TODAY: In 1932, children’s author Katherine Paterson, whose novel Bridge to Terabithia ranks number 8 on the American Library Association list of most commonly challenged books in the United States for 1990–1999, is born.

The effect is more often grotesque than terrible: Read an 1897 review of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. | Book Marks

“What has the Big Data approach to literature added up to?” A look back at what critic Franco Moretti’s “distant reading” strategy of literary scholarship has and hasn’t accomplished. | The New York Times

“There are aspects of an inquisition I would really enjoy. The collaborative invention of the world we all wish were true would be one part.” Kathryn Nuernberger on witchcraft, interrogation, and the psyche. | The Paris Review